In recent years, voice assistants have become very popular worldwide, not in the professional space but households. Google with “Google assistant,” Amazon with “Alexa,” and Apple with “Siri,” and who knows many more in the coming future. There is an estimated 15 billion USD market for voice assistants, and they are gathering appreciation from people.
What is Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant?
Siri was first made by Stanford Research Institute as an application in February 2010. Initially, Siri was offered as a stand-alone app for IOS users. But with the passing time, Apple extended and closely integrated it with third-party applications. It uses NLP (natural language processing) and provides relevant assistance.
Amazon’s artificial intelligence assistant is called Alexa. It was launched in 2014 along with the Amazon Echo smart speaker. Operating Alexa is easy with friendly user options. It can play any music, old or new, or operate smart electronic devices. Alexa makes its users’ life more comfortable by pulling out information and services from all of the amazon services.
Last but not least, Google Assistant was created by Google in 2016. It made its debut as part of Google’s messaging app “Allo” and speakers, activated by Google voice. In May 2017, it was the beginning when Google assistant was integrated with third-party Android smartphones. Google assistant is widely used across multiple devices such as phones, smart speakers, computers, and more.
Which Voice Assistant is the Best?
All three voice bots are currently the most favorable virtual assistant available in the market. Not only do they help you manage your smart homes, but they uniformly learn, answer your queries, and even add a bit of playfulness to lift the mood. But to make it more straightforward for you, we will analyze all of them against the three main characteristics they execute every day.
All can respond to people’s queries but the difference is in the accuracy levels. Google assistant answers 88% of all the questions correctly, Siri answers 75%, whereas Alexa answers 72.5% of the problems. With one feature, a voice bot can’t be an ideal choice, we want our voice bots to be charming, funny, and have a personality.
All have the ability to play music. Alexa plays music directly from amazon music, but surprisingly it is compatible with other music platforms such as Spotify, youtube music, Pandora, and more. Google Assistant plays music from third-party platforms, mainly from Spotify, and surprisingly it doesn’t support google play. So the winner is Alexa when it comes to playing music with the best compatibility.
In summary, this competition is more between Alexa and Google. Since Alexa is Amazon’s product, it has a homegrown advantage of letting users find and shop products instantly with just one command. Google assistant is also quite helpful when navigating, recommending, and guiding during online shopping. Siri isn’t developed enough to handle online shopping yet.
